Bank of Canada (Banque du Canada)

Name: Bank of Canada (Banque du Canada)
Creator: Bank of Canada
License: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/terms/

Open · redistributedcustom-terms-bocMoney & Banking

Source: Bank of Canada

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

12,862

Temporal coverage

1900-01-01 – present

Licensing & provenance

License: custom-terms-boc
License URL: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/terms/
Required attribution: Source: Bank of Canada
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Restricted / no
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://www.bankofcanada.ca
Provider terms: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/terms/

How to cite

Bank of Canada (Banque du Canada). Retrieved from https://www.bankofcanada.ca. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download boc series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/boc
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets